The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

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The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
OCLC
55101281

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (時をかける少女, Toki o Kakeru Shōjo, lit. 'Girl who Soars Through Time') is a science fiction novel by Yasutaka Tsutsui. Originally serialized from 1965 to 1966, it tells the story of a high-school girl who accidentally acquires the ability to time travel, which leads to a time loop where she repeatedly relives the same day.

Originally serialised in seven installments in two of

1983 live-action film directed by Nobuhiko Ōbayashi, and a 2006 anime film directed by Mamoru Hosoda. The original novel was first published in English translation by the British publisher Alma Books[2] on May 26, 2011, in a translation by David James Karashima.[3]

The title is also that of a song, written by

Yumi Matsutōya to be performed by Tomoyo Harada
for the 1983 film, which has enjoyed considerable fame of its own.

Plot

Kazuko Yoshiyama, a third-year

lavender
-like scent and faints. After three days, events transpire around Kazuko, including the burning of Gorō's house after an earthquake. The next morning, at the exact moment of a car accident, Kazuko is transported 24 hours into the past.

She relives the day and relates her strange experience to Kazuo and Gorō. They do not believe her at first, but they are convinced when she accurately predicts the earthquake and ensuing fire. Goro also almost gets hit by a truck but Kazuko knows and tells him, so it adds to Goro believing her even more. They go to see Fukushima, their science teacher, who explains Kazuko's new ability as "teleportation" and "time-leap". To solve the riddle of her power, she must leap back four days.

Finally, Kazuko's determination enables her to make the leap. Back in the science room, she meets a mysterious man who has assumed her friend Kazuo's identity. He is really "Ken Sogoru", a time-traveler from AD 2660. His intersection with the girl's life is the accidental effect of a "time-leaping" drug. Ken remains for a month, and Kazuko falls in love with him. When he leaves, he erases all memories of himself from everyone he has met, including Kazuko. As the book ends, Kazuko has the faint memory of somebody promising to meet her again every time she smells lavender.

Publication history

The novel was first serialized in the Japanese youth magazines Chu-3 Course and Kō-1 Course, from November 1965 to May 1966, and has been regularly re-edited in Japan ever since, notably in 1967 (

ISBN 4-04-130521-7). The novel is also published in foreign countries, like France (La Traversée du temps, 1983),[4]
South Korea, and China.

According to the scholar Ulrich Heinze, the novel represents the first fully formed version of time travel as an exploration of

Hollywood film Groundhog Day (1993).[8]

Adaptations

1972 television series

NHK produced two adaptations titled Time Traveler and Zoku Time Traveler, aired in 1972. Starring Mayumi Asano.

1983 film

Main article:
Toki o Kakeru Shōjo (1983 film)

The 1983 live-action film is a direct adaptation of the novel, released on July 16, 1983 in Japan by Tōei, directed by Nobuhiko Ōbayashi, with a screenplay by Wataru Kenmotsu, and starring idol Tomoyo Harada in her first film. It's been since released internationally on DVD, with English subtitles, under several unofficial English titles (The Little Girl Who Conquered Time, Girl of Time, The Girl Who Cut Time, among others).

This film was a major box office hit in Japan.

highest-grossing Japanese film of 1983.[9]

1983 short story

Yasutaka Tsutsui wrote a short story parodying his own novel titled Scenario: Toki o Kakeru Shōjo in response to the film adaptation.

1985 drama

Adapted to an episode of Getsuyō Drama Land. Starring Yoko Minamino.

1994 drama

Main article: Toki o Kakeru Shōjo (1994 TV series)

The second

Ryōichi Kimizuka and music by Joe Hisaishi. It stars the then-rookie idol Yuki Uchida
in the main role.

1997 film

Main article: Toki o Kakeru Shōjo (1997 film)

The second

live-action film adaptation of was released in Japan on November 8, 1997, directed by Haruki Kadokawa, with a screenplay by Ryōji Itō, Chiho Katsura [jp] and Haruki Kadokawa, starring beginner Nana Nakamoto [jp
] in the main role.

2002 TV film

Main article: Morning Musume: Shinshun! Love Stories

The novel was adapted into one third of the Shinshun! Love Stories anthology film starring members of the all-girl

Abe Natsumi and directed by Kazuhiro Onohara
.

2006 anime film

Main article: The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006 film)

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time was produced by the animation studio

Madhouse and distributed through Kadokawa Herald Pictures, first released in theaters in Japan on July 15, 2006. The film was later released on DVD on April 20, 2007 in Japan in regular and limited editions. The film features Riisa Naka, who later voices the protagonist Akari Yoshiyama in the 2010 live movie Time Traveller: The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
, as the lead character, Makoto Konno, the niece of Kazuko Yoshiyama, who is the protagonist of the novel, and cousin of Akari Yoshiyama.

2010 film

Main article: Time Traveller: The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

A third Japanese

Ikimono-gakari. The movie features Riisa Naka, who previously voiced the protagonist Makoto Konno in the 2006 animated film The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006 film)
, as the lead character, Akari Yoshiyama, the daughter of Kazuko Yoshiyama and cousin of Makoto Konno. The film is a sequel to the original tale in which Kazuko's daughter, Akari, travels back in time to relay a message to Ken.

2016 drama

A 5 episode live-action television series was aired in 2016, with

Sexy Zone and Yuina Kuroshima
.

2017 stage play

A stage play adaptation of Zoku Time Traveler premiered in Tokyo in 2017.[11]

Manga

The novel was adapted in 2004 into a two-volume

Shōnen Ace manga magazine between April 26 and June 26, 2006, illustrated by Ranmaru Kotone; the chapters were later collected into a single bound volume which went on sale on July 26, 2006. Another manga, known as Toki o Kakeru Shōjo: After (時をかける少女 After), set as prelude to the 2010 film was serialized in Young Ace magazine.[12]

References

  1. high school
    respectively and switching between them (the Japanese school year ending and beginning in the spring) so as to follow the migrating readership.
  2. ^ "Girl Who Leapt Through Time novel translated". Anime News Network. March 6, 2011. Retrieved 7 March 2011.
  3. ^ "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time by Yasutaka Tsutsui". Alma Books. 2011. Retrieved 2015-01-11.
  4. ^ "La Traversée du temps" (in French). Retrieved 2008-06-07.
  5. S2CID 143520985
    . Yasutaka Tsutsui's 1967 novel Toki o kakeru shōjo (The girl who leapt through time) represents the first fully formed version of time travel as exploration of self, using a radically different design for the time travel narrative, avoiding expedition to remote galaxies or eras and limiting the time jumps to the period of adolescence
  6. ^ "THE GIRL WHO LEAPT THROUGH TIME (2006)". Deptford Cinema. August 9, 2017. Retrieved 27 January 2020.
  7. ^ "THE GIRL WHO LEAPT THROUGH TIME (2006) at Deptford Cinema". TicketSource. 9 August 2017. Retrieved 27 January 2020.
  8. ^ a b Walkov, Marc (2016). "The Girl Who Leapt through Time". Far East Film Festival. Retrieved 30 April 2020.
  9. ^ "過去興行収入上位作品 一般社団法人日本映画製作者連盟". Eiren. Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan. 1983. Retrieved 30 April 2020.
  10. ^ "映画『時をかける少女』オフィシャルサイト". Archived from the original on 2010-03-01. Retrieved 2010-02-26.
  11. ^ "『時をかける少女』続編が初舞台化 主演は上白石萌歌「思い切り駆け抜けたい！」". April 2021.
  12. ^ http://zepy.momotato.com/2009/10/09/toki-wo-kakeru-shoujo-new-movies-manga/ Toki wo kakeru shoujo new movie's manga

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